ansible-7days

Install and configure 7 Days to Die gameserver with Ansible

What does it do?

• Automate deployment of 7 Days to Die Server
  • Downloads and sets up SteamCMD
  • Drops in templated server configs, startup script
  • Installs 7 Days to Die Systemd services for management

Requirements

• RHEL7 or CentOS7+ server/client with no modifications
  • Fedora 23 or higher needs to have yum python2 python2-dnf libselinux-python packages.
  • You can run this against Fedora clients prior to running Ansible:
  • ansible all -u root -m shell -i hosts -a "dnf install yum python2 libsemanage-python python2-dnf -y"
• Deployment tested on Ansible 1.9.4 and 2.0.2

7 Days Server Instructions

• Clone repo and setup your hosts file

git clone https://github.com/sadsfae/ansible-7days
cd ansible-7days
sed -i 's/host-01/7daystodieserver/' hosts

• Optionally edit server name, port or other variables here:

vi install/group_vars/all.yml

• Run the playbook

ansible-playbook -i hosts install/7days.xml

• On subsequent runs Ansible will simply update SteamCMD, 7days assets and restart the 7days systemd service.

To Do

• Add optional ability to import saved games
• Flesh out firewall rules more to include ranges
• Expand server config variables

File Hierarchy

├── hosts
└── install
    ├── 7days.yml
    ├── group_vars
    │   └── all.yml
    └── roles
        └── 7server
            ├── files
            │   ├── 7days.service
            │   └── startserver.sh
            ├── tasks
            │   └── main.yml
            └── templates
                └── serverconfig.xml.j2

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